VGChartz - July 24, 2009

Monster Hunter 3 will be releasing August 1st in Japan. On the same day at 10am, the network service will become available.
There are some free deals for people who want to test the online features for either 20 days, or 90 days. After this though, players will have to pay for the online by purchasing "Hunting Tickets".
The prices are as follows...
A 30 day ticket - 800 Wii Points
A 60 day ticket - 1500 Wii Points
A 90 day ticket - 2000 Wii PointsComments (0) | Permalink

VGChartz - July 29, 2009

It's no joke that Monster Hunter is ridiculously huge in Japan. With Monster Hunter Tri releasing this Saturday in Japan, it's showing no signs of slowing down. In fact, the initial Japanese shipment of Monster Hunter Tri has surpassed 1 million units! Comments (0) | Permalink

ShareWatch - October 10, 2007

"Due to high development cost of titles for PS3, we have decided to switch the platform to which we release our Monster Hunster 3 title," Capcom managing corporate officer Ichii said.Comments (2) | Permalink

Siliconera - May 10, 2009

Until now Capcom was coy to confirm it, but Monster Hunter Tri is without a doubt getting an overseas release. Their 2008 financial results presentation states Monster Hunter Tri will come out in “FY 2009″ or, in plain English, sometime between April 2009 - April 2010. Monster Hunter Tri comes has an ambiguous summer target in Japan. I wouldn’t expect a domestic release until this winter.Comments (1) | Permalink

Nintendo announce April 20th release date. There will be no subscription fees associated with online play in the NA version. Along with a GameStop-exclusive demo of the game, available on March 8th, they will also score a 500 Monster Hunter Tri Points Card, good towards purchases in the Nintendo Wii or DSi shopping channels.

@yajimari21,IMO, when shorting something, it better to have a minimum (worst case) profit margin of 30%. This stock only have 15% profit margin (2.3 Mil current price - 2 Million worst case scenario / 2.3 Mil current price = 15%), therefore it is a risky short (and really dangerous long).

From those numbers it looks like this game should head for about 1.8-2 mill WW, in the absence of any major rise in its popularity overseas and unexpectedly long legs in Japan. Might be a marginally good stock to short at the current price, although there are quite a few other better short opportunities available now.